Some important details about 6th Pay Commission

New Delhi, Aug 19, 2008: Here we are trying to give some important details about the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations.

Union Cabinet has approved the recommendation of Sixth pay Commission recommendation giving hope to the central government employees. Several state governments have also announced to implement the pay panel report. The states that have announced to implement the report include Uttar Pradesh, Tamil nadu, haryana and Puducherry.

Salient features of 6th Pay Commission

State government employees in other states too are hoping that their respective governments too would come forward to implement the report in their states.

With general elections not far away from now, it is expected that at least all states where Congress is in power would pretty soon announce the implementation of the reports. BJP ruled states cannot stay behind.

Some salient features of the sixth pay commission report:

Implementation of the revised pay scales from january1 2006. recommendations relating to the allowances to be implemented prospectively.

To remove stagnation, introducton of running pay bands for all posts in the government presently existing in scales below that of Rs 26000 (fixed).

Four distinct running pay bands being recommended-one running band each for all categories of employees in groups B, C with 2 running pay bands for Group A posts.
The posts of Secretary to Government of India/ equivalent and Cabinet secretary/equivalent to be kept in distinct pay scale.

A separate running pay band, designated as –1Scale is not to be counted for any purpose as further no recruitment to be made in this regard and all het present group D employees not possessing not possessing the prescribed qualifications are to be upgraded and placed in the group C running pay band PB-1 after they are suitably restrained. Group D employees possessing the minimum prescribed qualifications to be placed in PB-1 pay band straightaway.

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